As AI technology moves from breakthrough innovations to widespread commercial applications, China’s AI landscape is gaining confidence in its ability to compete globally, particularly with Silicon Valley.
According to Kai-Fu Lee, former Google China president and founder of AI startup 01.AI, Chinese AI firms have a unique edge over their U.S. counterparts: faster and more cost-effective deployment of large language models (LLMs).
At a recent event, 01.AI announced the launch of its flagship pre-trained model, Yi-Lightning, which has achieved a global ranking of sixth place in the LMSYS leaderboard, surpassing OpenAI’s GPT-4 May version and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
This marks a significant milestone for Chinese AI, as Yi-Lightning has become the top-ranking model from China.
Lee, speaking to Chinese media outlet TMTPost on October 21, highlighted this achievement:
Yi-Lightning is the first Chinese large model to beat most U.S. competitors, including OpenAI’s...
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